Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress (WW 2): Books - History (2/2)
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B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 1) (Osprey)
The Boeing B-17 has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, the huge four-engined heavy day bomber taking the fight to Germany from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. The primary operator of the Flying Fortress in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth'. This volume, which is the first of two dealing exclusively with the 'Mighty Eighth', covers the 15 Bomb Groups of the First Air Division, each of which controlled four squadrons. The evolution of the force is traced through first-hand accounts of those individuals that took part in the action.
Contents: Yankee Doodle Goes To War - Spreading the Wealth - 'Black Thursday' and beyond - 'Big Week' and 'Big B - Final Victory - Appendices.
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Author:
Martin Bowman
Details:
116 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 1 cm / 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.39 in, paperback
Illustrations:
photos and drawings (in b&w and colour)
Publisher:
Osprey Publishing (GB, 2000)
Series:
Combat Aircraft (18)
ISBN:
9781841760216
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 1)
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 2) (Osprey)
The Boeing B-17, which has come to epitomise the American war effort in Europe, took the fight to Germans from the late summer of 1942 through to VE-Day. Its primary operator in Western Europe was the 'Mighty Eighth', who controlled 27 bomb groups for much of the war.
This second of two volumes covers the 14 Bomb Groups of the Third Air Division. First hand accounts, period photography, profile artworks and nose art scrap views bring to life aircraft from each of the groups within the Third Air Division.
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Author:
Martin Bowman
Details:
96 pages, 24.5 x 18.5 x 0.5 cm / 9.7 x 7.3 x 0.2 in, paperback
Illustrations:
93 b&w and 18 colour photos, drawings
Publisher:
Osprey Publishing (GB, 2002)
Series:
Combat Aircraft (36)
ISBN:
9781841764344
B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (Part 2)
Although the Fifteenth Air Force was dismissed as 'minor leaguers' by the Eighth Air Force, strategic bombers from this outfit had done a 'major league' job on Axis targets in southern Europe following its formation in Italy in November 1943. And the heavy bombers employed by the Fifteenth were of course the venerable B-17 and B-24.
At its peak strength, the Fifteenth's B-17 force comprised six groups of four squadrons each, all controlled by the 5th Bomb Wing. Having been a part of the Fifteenth Air Force in 1944, author Bill Hess has long been waiting to write a definitive account on 'his air force'.
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Author:
William N. Hess
Details:
96 pages, 25 x 18.5 x 0.6 cm / 9.8 x 7.3 x 0.24 in, paperback
B-17 - Missions de combat : Chasseurs, Flak et Forteresses volantes
"B-17 - Missions de combat" takes the reader inside the cockpits of each crew member of the Flying Fortress, telling the story of those who flew and fought aboard one of the most famous bombers of World War II. Unique airman testimonies are combined with archival photos that bring the stories of these air gladiators to life in vivid detail.
This book includes over 100 testimonies, most of them never before published, from B-17 crew members. Each crew member recounts his experience in turn - the pilot, the co-pilot, the navigator, the radioman, the bombardier, the mechanic-gunner, the tail gunners, the turret gunners... - to give a complete vision of a war mission on a B-17. A hundred memories, nearly 40 photos taken from military archives and 180 archive photos illustrate this book.
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Author:
Martin Bowman
Details:
152 pages, 28 x 25.5 cm / 11 x 10 in, hardback
Illustrations:
620 b&w and colour photos
Publisher:
ETAI (F, 2010)
ISBN:
9782726889893
B-17 - Missions de combat : Chasseurs, Flak et Forteresses volantes
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